A poet secretly working as a detective infiltrates an anarchist council and gradually discovers that neither his fellow conspirators nor their mysterious leader are what they first appear to be.
This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on September 5, 1938. It is listed as episode 9 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Orson Welles, Eustace Wyatt, Edgar Barrier, Joseph Cotten, and George Coulouris. Other credited names include Dan Seymour as announcer.
This version is based on Mercury Theater 1938-09-05 (9) the Man Who Was Thursday. G. K. Chesterton is credited as author.
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